The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-05-07
IN THE LABOR WORLD.
Specially Compiled for the Toilers by an Ad
vooate Nan.


vooate Man.
The Allentown spike works have re-
sumed operation.
"A Knitting factpry will in all probabil-
ity be established at Nazareth.
The Tamaqua Assembly Knight Of
Labor has membership of six hundred.
A Knight OF Labor Assembly was
instituted at 81. Clair, Schuylkill county,
last week.
One thousand men and boys find EN-.
ployment in the slate qusrres In andaround
Slatington.
knights of Labor should make every
possible effort to purge their order OF
members who possess sociaistic or anarclr-
tstic propenslties.
Correspondents to this column solicit
cd, If you have anything of interest to the
toilers send it to Labor Editor" care OF
ADVOCATE, Lehighton.
by the blowing in OF Coarne furnace
al Redington last week seyen.y-five men
were given employment There is now,
not an idle blast furnace In the Lehigh
Valley.
Oscar Kurtz's brick-making establish
ment at Catasauqua has been started up,
and already turns out on the drying beds
$4,000 daily. The capacity is however to
be enlarged so as TO make the daily pre-
duction $4,000,
The Bethlehem Iron Company at
present has 5000 employees on its pay roll.
The works were started in 1860, and at
first employed only 600 hands. But the
then Mill was enlarged from time to time
until nov 1t is the greatest steel plant In
America.
The Philadelphia iron market report
says that increased activity is noted in
steel rails, but the iron trade generally is
quiet. Large orders are in prospect In
many departments of the trade, and busi-
ness generally is very good with no change
in ruling prices,
w. W. Gibbs, who recently bought the
Pennsylvahia, Slatington and New England
Railroad for s50,OOO paid down $4,000
and will receive the deed in few days.
lie says the road will be built this summer.
He is interested in the Hudson river bridge
project and may connect the railroad with
the Poughkeepsic enterprise.
The income from freight carried over
the Lehigh Valley railroad during the
month of March was 100000 more than
during the same month in 1885. There
was big rush during that month, shippers
having taken advantage of old rates to get
al! they could ir market before the inter-
state commerce law went into effect.
-Pittsburg has already put 400,000 tons
of Iron on the market this year. The old
rails and muck iron make about 300, ,0OO
tons, the remaining 100000 tons being
steel. In no year before 1885 did Pittsburg
ever put on the market more than 100000
tons. This year 1t will reach nearly ,25O,-
600 tons of finished Iron and steel 10.
gether.
"A short time ago merchants of Halle
ton sent petitons numerously signed, to
the officials of the Lehish Valley company
against certain officials who had influenced
the employees of the company to deal at
certain stores. The company replies that
1t disapproves of any attempt to control
their employees in making purchases, and
that 1t will discharge any officer or employe
SO offending.
The miners of the Lackawanna region
are to unite with their brethren of the
Schuylkill region in demand upon theil
employers for raise in wages of from ten
| TO twenty per cent. Messrs. Simpson &
Watkins, coal operators of Scranton, have
been formally notified by their employees
of this demand The executive committee
of the Knights of Labor will meet on Mon
day next and take definite action.
The monlders and apprentices in EN-
ploy in the Lehigh Stove Manufacturing
Campany's Works at this place, on Thurs
day refused to work over the boycotted St
Louis patterns, and quit the shops. Ate
the moulders had quit Superinten
Butler asked the apprentices to work tn,
patterns, but they also refused to handl
them, and at once joined the moulders
| Mr.. Butler then asked the men whethe
they proposed to return to work, or hav
him close the establishment. They chos
the latter course, and left. The works ar
still idle, and without any immediate pros
pect of a settlement of the difficulty.
"A cooperative general store has beef
established at White Haven on the follow
ing basis: Those who have been unite
with the association are required to deposi
a certain sum per month with the treasure
of the association. This deposit is to b
made in advance, when merchandise t
the amount of ninety per cent. of tn
deposit may be obtained, The remainn
ten per cent. of each deposit is to serve a
a sort of sinking fund, from which rem
clerk hire, freights and other incidents
expenses are to be paid. The goods, whic
will consist OF groceries and provisions, wi
be sold to the members at actual cos
When ninety per cent. of the deposit sha
be exhausted another deposit must /
made, so that the members will alwaN
have cash credit with the association
No goods will be sold TO any other perso
than such as are members of the association
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Remember This.
You can have sale bills printed at tn
Office while you wait.
Our circulation is rapidly increasing
everybody reads the ADVOCATE.
Advertise your sales in the CARBo
ADVOCATE.
! All will do well to have their sale bill
printed at this Office. A position in OF
''Publlc Sale Register" is worth conside
, able.
We do all kinds of plain and fancy 10
work-letter heads, note heads, receipts
&C., put up in tablet style if desired.
/ -Stroudsburg has a population of 2, 2,05t
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